Murders in
South Carolina
State-wide
Murders in 2024:
421
Upstate
Murders in 2024:
94
Midlands
Murders in 2024:
109
PeeDee
Murders in 2024:
101
Lowcountry
Murders in 2024:
117
Murders per South Carolina County in 2024
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Data Sources
Murders by Reporting Law Enforcement Agency
Murder Rates in
South Carolina
State-wide
Murder Rate in 2024:
7.72
Upstate
Murder Rate in 2024:
5.74
Midlands
Murder Rate in 2024:
6.94
PeeDee
Murder Rate in 2024:
10.23
Lowcountry
Murder Rate in 2024:
9.12
Murders per 100k Residents in 2024 by South Carolina County
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Data Sources
Murder Rates by Law Enforcement Agency
Sexual Assaults in
South Carolina
State-wide
Sexual Assaults
in 2024:
2,163
Upstate
Sexual Assaults
in 2024:
747
Midlands
Sexual Assaults
in 2024:
530
PeeDee
Sexual Assaults
in 2024:
515
Lowcountry
Sexual Assaults
in 2024:
371
Sexual Assaults per South Carolina County in 2024
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Data Sources
Sexual Assaults by Reporting Law Enforcement Agency
Sexual Assault
Rates in
South Carolina
State-wide
Sexual Assault Rate
in 2024:
39.57
Upstate
Sexual Assault Rate
in 2024:
45.62
Midlands
Sexual Assault Rate
in 2024:
33.73
PeeDee
Sexual Assault Rate
in 2024:
52.15
Lowcountry
Sexual Assault Rate
in 2024:
28.93
Sexual Assaults per 100k Residents in 2024 by South Carolina County
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Data Sources
Sexual Assault Rates by Law Enforcement Agency
Robberies in
South Carolina
State-wide
Robberies in 2024:
1,958
Upstate
Robberies in 2024:
449
Midlands
Robberies in 2024:
541
PeeDee
Robberies in 2024:
398
Lowcountry
Robberies in 2024:
570
Robberies per South Carolina County in 2024
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Data Sources
Robberies by Reporting Law Enforcement Agency
Robbery Rates in
South Carolina
State-wide
Robbery Rate in 2024:
35.84
Upstate
Robbery Rate in 2024:
27.42
Midlands
Robbery Rate in 2024:
34.43
PeeDee
Robbery Rate in 2024:
40.31
Lowcountry
Robbery Rate in 2024:
44.44
Robberies per 100k Residents in 2024 by South Carolina County
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Data Sources
Robbery Rates by Law Enforcement Agency
Aggravated Assaults
in
South Carolina
State-wide
Aggravated Assaults
in 2024:
19,785
Upstate
Aggravated Assaults
in 2024:
5,299
Midlands
Aggravated Assaults
in 2024:
5,058
PeeDee
Aggravated Assaults
in 2024:
5,116
Lowcountry
Aggravated Assaults
in 2024:
4,304
Aggravated Assaults per South Carolina County in 2024
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Data Sources
Aggravated Assaults by Reporting Law Enforcement Agency
Aggravated Assault
Rates in
South Carolina
State-wide
Aggravated Assault
Rate in 2024:
362.06
Upstate
Aggravated Assault
Rate in 2024:
323.61
Midlands
Aggravated Assault
Rate in 2024:
321.9
PeeDee
Aggravated Assault
Rate in 2024:
518.1
Lowcountry
Aggravated Assault
Rate in 2024:
335.58
Aggravated Assaults per 100k Residents in 2024 by South Carolina County
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Data Sources
Aggravated Assault Rates by Law Enforcement Agency

Limitations, Data Sources, and Other Information:

  • I used APIs to access data directly from the FBI Crime Data Explorer and the US Census Bureau. All data visualized in the dashboard is directly from these two sources or is generated from calculations done with these two data sources. This dashboard was generated using Quarto in R Studio.

  • Some agencies reported “-1” for rates during certain months, presumably this is because most of them have no rate since they do not cover population - this was the case for all the college and university agencies, BPS, airports and other similar agencies, as well as the Catawba Nation. These agencies were removed from the rates table, however any crime counts they did report were used to calculate the county and region level rates.

  • If any agency failed to report on a given month, I recorded its count and rate as “0”. The overwhelming majority of SC law enforcement agencies reported data for all 12 months of 2024 according to SLED (see below).

  • The state and agency level counts and rates shown here are those reported by the FBI CDE. The county counts are the sum of crime occurring in agencies within the county. The regional counts are the sum of the counts for the counties within the region. County rates are calculated using US Census population estimates for each county and the crime counts calculated for each county. Regional rates sum county population estimates and crime counts and uses these variables to calculate the rate.

  • Some agencies overlap more than one county. I tried to locate any instances of this and in those cases assign the agency’s crime total to the county in which the majority of agency is situated.

  • According to SLED, 37 agencies failed to report between one and twelve months of data in 2024. See page one of this SLED report.

  • According to SLED there are 279 active law enforcement agencies in SC. The CDE lists ORIs for 280, the data from which are shown here.

Thanks for viewing,

Cannon Fulmer